We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result.

We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.

After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.